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Urban Space: The Phenomena of Unfinished in the Cities of Montenegro
Throughout the history of civilisation and architecture, the phenomenon of unfinished has been constantly present. Many historical and sociopolitical developments have caused some buildings and urban areas never to be completed. Nevertheless, these âstructuresâ, although âmistakes of the pastâ, have continued to live spontaneously, being integrated into the urban fabric of the city. They have often become parts of the public space, as âmutantsâ, and a constant inspiration for architects and artists. There are many such examples in the territory of Montenegro: Ulcinj, Risan, Budva, Pluzine, Niksic, etc. The Revolution Memorial Hall building in Niksic, an unfinished concrete and steel mega-structure â âmega-unfinishednessâ (âa similar structure was not built in the former SFRYâ), is a good example of it. Today, this unfinished âdead spaceâ continues to âliveâ by generating new âevents in spaceâ, from âkiosk size businessesâ to the idea of being simply âburiedâ, turning thus into a âlive monumentâ
Generation and manipulation of nonclassical light using photonic crystals
Photonic crystal cavities can localize light into nanoscale volumes with high
quality factors. This permits a strong interaction between light and matter,
which is important for the construction of classical light sources with
improved properties (e.g., low threshold lasers) and of nonclassical light
sources (such as single and entangled photon sources) that are crucial pieces
of hardware of quantum information processing systems. This article will review
some of our recent experimental and theoretical results on the interaction
between single quantum dots and photonic crystal cavity fields, and on the
integration of multiple photonic crystal devices into functional circuits for
quantum information processing.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; replaced with revised versio
Local temperature control of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters
We demonstrate a method to locally control the temperature of photonic
crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters. The method is used to
control the resonant frequency of InAs quantum dots strongly coupled to GaAs
photonic crystal resonators. This technique enables independent control of
large ensembles of photonic devices located on the same chip at tuning speed as
high as hundreds of kHz
Two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays
We present the design and fabrication of photonic crystal structures
exhibiting electromagnetic bands that are flattened in all crystal directions,
i.e., whose frequency variation with wavevector is minimized. Such bands can be
used to reduce group velocity of light propagating in arbitrary crystal
direction, which is of importance for construction of miniaturized tunable
optical delay components, low-threshold photonic crystal lasers, and study of
nonlinear optics phenomena.Comment: 8 pages text and 3 figures on 3 pages. Published on Appl. Phys. Lett.
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Photonic Crystal Cavities in Silicon Dioxide
One dimensional nano-beam photonic crystal cavities fabricated in silicon
dioxide are considered in both simulation and experiment. Quality factors of
over 10^4 are found via simulation, while quality factors of over 5*10^3 are
found in experiment, for cavities with mode volumes of 2.0 cubic wavelengths
(in oxide) and in the visible wavelength range (600-716nm). The dependences of
the cavity quality factor and mode volume for different design parameters are
also considered.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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